UNREST IN PALESTINE
BRITISH OFFICER KILLED SUPPRESSION OF REVOLT lILLEGAL JEWISH IMMIGRANTS United Press Assn.—Elec. Tei. Copyrl&ht) (Received August 21, 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 20 The Jerusalem correspondent of the Times says that in the course of suppressing a revival of the revolt Lieutenant C. Rivett-Carnac, of the Sherwood Foresters, two Jews, one Arab and fifteen rebels were killed. Three privates were wounded in a skirmish at Deirhannah, after the dispersal of forty rebels, ten of whom were wounded. A marine patrol seized 840 illegal Jewish immigrants on three vessels. They are mostly from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, via Rhodes. Ihe majority have been quarantined in the homes of other immigrants. FIFTEEN BRIGANDS KILLED CLASH WITH BRITISH TROOPS (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright* (Received August 21, 11 a.m.) JERUSALEM, August 20 It is stated that at least fifteen brigands were killed and a large quantity of arms seized in a fight between British troops and armed gangs northwest of Tiberias.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20888, 21 August 1939, Page 7
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